It was the scorching heat of dog days when someone knocked at my door. I opened the door to a child of about eight, asking if I would buy anything from him. He was a cute little boy with brown hair and green eyes. His skin was tanned and his clothes displayed…

Perveen washes my clothes, my dirty dishes and my bathrooms. She mops my floors and empties my trash and sometimes (like once in a blue moon) takes a duster and flicks it haphazardly at some of the furniture so she can add dusting to her list of chores.

It was the early hours of August 14th 2013, and flags fluttered on flagpoles around Pakistan, as soldiers in Army bases prepared their customary gun salutes. It was a holiday and salaried men and schoolchildren took a little longer to awaken, dawdling in their beds as pots of tea began to bubble on stove-tops. It was Pakistan’s 66th birthday and amid the killings of the…

In 1987, a 74-year old rickshaw puller by the name of Bai Fangli came back to his hometown planning to retire from his backbreaking job. There, he saw children working in the fields, because they were too poor to afford school fees.

by Noorulain NoorMy sisters and I walked to the small corner store at the end of our lane on a sweltering August afternoon. We purchased a medium sized fabric flag, and three packets of small flags printed on cheap paper strung together with a length of twine. We came home and wedged the medium sized flag made with a polyester blend fabric between the curves in the wrought-iron fence circling our rooftop terrace. We tied the…

In this article I remind you the great film by Tim Burton which was release in 2001 by the name of Planet of apes. In this film that the human send to another planet where apes was in rule and they live so much prosperity. At that planet the apes have designed their lives according to their needs. In which the…